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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday July 24 2018, @05:18PM   Printer-friendly
from the then-again,-maybe-not dept.

In what appears to be new ranking behavior, Gizmodo has identified several prominent far-right accounts now buried by Twitter's search feature.

The accounts—which belong to figures like Unite The Right organizer Jason Kessler and white nationalist Richard Spencer—no longer appear in the social platform's dropdown results, when searching either for their display names or @ handles.

"Search all" on desktop, and sorting by "People" after a search on mobile still generate the expected results, but Twitter seems to intend to reduce the ease with which these personalities can grow their followings. The move follows Twitter's plans to limit the reach of "troll-like behavior," announced in May.

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-may-be-demoting-controversial-accounts-in-searc-1827788070


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  • (Score: 2) by schad on Wednesday July 25 2018, @02:03AM (1 child)

    by schad (2398) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @02:03AM (#712099)

    But why does it matter what legal framework a group of people chooses to use when organizing itself? Clearly those people individually have the Constitutionally-guaranteed right to political speech. But when you put them in a group, they don't have that right any more? Is it only some groups? Do the groups have to be of a certain size? How do you define those limits? What about elements of personhood that I think we all agree that corporations ought to have, like the ability to enter into contracts?

    I feel like there is something I'm missing, because this seems really, really obvious to me. Yet roughly half the country disagrees with me (and most of the other half probably agree only because they feel it benefits "their side"). The WP articles you cite really only talk about the way things are, and don't say anything about why (other than "because the Supreme Court said so").

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @06:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @06:39AM (#712205)

    The ACLU agrees with you and "reaffirmed its stance in support of the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling" in 2012.